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Excerpt from The History of the Church of Scotland, Vol. 3: From the Reformation to the Present Time
MY lord, - I have not been able to write to your grace since I received your letter; but I hope the despatches which the king sent down by my brother will please you better than any thing that I could have written, seeing you will see, that notwithstanding of all the lies with which the faction was eu tertained in Scotland, his majestyhas made it appear to all the kingdom, that he will not countenance such who did so openly attempt against his authority and against the Articles 1, which is one of the best ?owers in his crown of Scotland. You will also have seen how that after the settling of the new commis sion of council, his first commands were to suppress those scandalous and seditious conventicles, which were (i am sure) too much countenanced by some whose duty should have obliged them to suppress them. And I hope the privy coun cil, as now it is constitute, will vigorously obey the king's com mands, and not make remonstrances against them, nor neglect the king's orders, which are so much in pursuance of the law, and so necessary for the peace and honour of the kingdom. Great endeavours have been used of late to alarm all England with the fears of a present rebellion in Scotland; but I hope, when those in authority shall do their duty, those seditious practices will quickly vanish and whoever will be slack in that duty, the king will let him know how much he re sents it.
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